Transformed into a massive hospital. What were learning about the much needed shipments of medical supplies. Why new orleans is now a major concern. All the overnight developments right now on america this morning. Good tuesday morning, everyone. President trump is vowing to open our country again saying he wants to end restrictions on americans sooner rather than lateer. But in some areas of the country that seems like a distant goal. 21 states ordering people to stay at home or closing n nonessential businesses. Washington and hawaii are the latest states to announce restrictions and atlanta is among the new cities announcing a stay at home order. Look at this. Images from across the country are like nothing weve ever seen. Freeways in l. A. Almost empty. The terminals at l. A. X. Airport, no one in sight. New york city has 35 of all the coronavirus cases in the country. The governor says hospitals have about ten days before they start running out of supplies. On capitol hill the sen
Mike gives you an early look at the morning commute. You still have a chance to beat the backup because we havent really seen backups aside from major accidents and we dont have any crashes going on right now. Were looking at a live look at the span, the bay bridge, and its moving nicely, very light traffic flowing here and that keeps you from having those metering lights on. On the peninsula, palo alto as well, no problems for the freeways. I do have a change across the bay for work for essential duty coming up in the next report. Back to you. Thanks, mike. The u. S. Just recorded its highest oneday total of deaths from the coronavirus. As the overall number of confirmed cases continues to rise. Right now in the u. S. More than 163,000 confirmed cases. Keep in mind on march 1st there were only 75. And as we enter a critical stage of containing the pandemic Big Companies are pitching in across the world to address the shortage of those splas. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us fro
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